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My topic for the senior exit project is The Truth about Steroids. During my research I came across an actual steroid user. I asked him to tell me about how he first got involved with steroids. He told me it was through his roommate in college his sophomore year. Locker room talk is one of the best ways steroids gets positive PR. The mindset is that these teammates are people you trust. If the steroids are working for these guys then it will work for you as well. His roommate introduced him to a ‘friend of the program’ he says. ‘Friends of the program’ refers to people in collegiate sports who help take care of athletes under the table illegally. They do things such as give them money, cars, and even steroids. I then proceeded to ask him what was the key factor that drove him to use steroids. He started talking about how back in peewee football, he played with the kids that were 3 years older than him. He mentioned how he was captain of his middle school team in 6th grade due to his athletic ability and work ethic. I didn’t understand where he was going with this, but I continued to listen. He then told me how he started at linebacker his freshman year in high school. By his junior year, he was all-state. By senior year, he had received a full athletic scholarship to a major division one college. Once he arrived on campus, for the first time in his life he said he was not an immediate superstar. He was backup his freshman year at this school. He said he couldn’t understand how much bigger and faster these guys were than him. His roommate was one of the starters and he asked him how he got so big and strong. He filled him in that almost every starter was using steroids. He then knew what he had to do if he wanted to start and possibly become an NFL athlete. He took steroids for 6 weeks. He said it was the most miserable 6 weeks of his life. He felt depressed all the time, his hair became oily, his back and face were covered with acne, he was having muscle and joint...
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